National Nursing Review : Nursing Study Resources & Health Tips

The history of care in America is a look at the evolution of a century-old techniques of caring for the sick and injured mixed with advances in scientific understanding, technology, regulatory developments and uniforms gender roles. While nursing is practiced in different ways in countries throughout the world, nursing in the United States sets the standards for much of the rest of the modern world.

Early American History Nursing
The women had long been the ones to care for the sick, using remedies and folk medicine to treat any number of ailments. No formal training existed for these medical skills, something, the information was handed down through generations. In the late 1800s, the care has become a profession trained in England and standards, records and regulations, led by Florence Nightingale, were established. The regulations and quickly formed organizations like the United States that standardized training methods for nurses. (more…)